We Hindus are very objective people. We do not like any irregularities in
our dealings. We want everything to be "clean", legal and correct. Gandhi
and Nehru are our mentors. But we always go to some one else to settle our
disputes ignoring the fact that the "some one else" will have different
value beliefs than our own. Naturally when the settlement comes out it is
never to our satisfaction and we quarrel about it. How can we ever be
content?

I remember the story that I heard as a child. Two crows find a cake. Being
good Hindu crows, they agree to divide it equally between them. Of course,
they wanted the shares to be precisely equal. Unsure of their ability to
do this by themselves, they go to a monkey with a balance. After hearing
out the crows the monkey casually splits the cake into two pieces and
places them in the balance. The balance tips as one piece is slightly
heavier than the other. The monkey takes a bite out of the heavier piece
and places it back in the balance. Now the other piece is heavier, the
balance tips the other way, and therefore, the monkey takes a bite out of
that piece. You guessed the rest of the story. The crows went home hungry
and became bitter enemies.

Is this a familiar theme?

Being a good and fair minded Hindu, Gandhi let Mountbatten and British to
divide the country into two pieces. Jinnah could not care less about the
fairness as long as he got his fiefdom. The other Hindu, Nehru (though he
took pride in claiming that he was not) went to United Nations to solve
the Kashmir cake. We all know how they turned out. Those mistakes have
cost us enormously and continue to bleed our economy and security to this
day.

Every society, whether it is Christian, Muslim, European, American,
Chinese or Arab, has internal quarrels but they close ranks in the event
of an external attack. Hindus not only continue their quarreling under
external attack but they also ask the enemy to settle the quarrels for
them. Our secularist intellectual elite had to approach the US Government
to declare the Gujarat Chief Minister Modi to be a "persona non grata" How
unfortunate! We are a democratic country and we can exercise our opinions
in our elections and have our own intellectual discourse. Instead our
secularists approached US Government to settle our quarrels. If anyone
suggesting the settlement of the dispute within our system is branded as a
fascist.

Notably the Indian academic elite living in the US who went on a battle to
prevent Modi from speaking are the same people who will defend the right
of David Duke to carry on with his hateful speeches. These people never
once lobbied the US Government in the matters related to the security or
economic well being of India. On issues like Kashmir, Indo-Pakistani
relationship and the role of India at the United Nations they never lifted
a finger to promote the Indian cause even when it was the right cause.

Suddenly they were all coming out of the woodwork like pests to lobby
against Modi`s visa. Christians and Muslims have their own agenda. The
Christians, regardless of their political leanings, are out to destroy
anyone who they see as an impediment to their proselytizing. The Islamists
are out to get as much political mileage. Our Hindu brethren among these
so called intellectual elite are seemingly ashamed of their own culture
and heritage. They are trying to hide their own Brownness by
disenfranchising any other Brown man with different view point speaking
his mind. In their view the freedom of expression is to be denied to
anyone who disagrees with their point of view.

Old man Mcaulay is chuckling in his grave as he is beyond his belief that
the Indians could be so fooled.

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